Questa Volta - Ludovico Einaudi (cover)

Ciaccona (L'Arpeggiata & Christina Pluhar)

Isaac Shepard - Letting Go

The final moments of an hour-long piano improvisation in Port Meadow, Oxford. Released for #PianoDay 2016. Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1CVLS0-ZYI&feature=youtu.be 

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Music: Fratres
Composer: Arvo Pärt
Album: Baltic & Beyond
Artists: Piet Koornhof, violin; Thomas Hecht, piano;
Label: Delos Productions - DE3529
Release Date: March 10, 2017

Among the most notable regional sources of soulful and spellbinding new music have been the Baltic nations – once part of the Soviet Union – with Arvo Pärt (Estonia), Peteris Vasks (Latvia) and Balys Dvarionas (Lithuania) among the region’s most prominent composers. Works for violin and piano by all three of these Baltic voices – as well as by Giya Kancheli (from Georgia, another former Soviet republic) – are featured in this hypnotically beautiful album that celebrates, in part, the composers’ new-found freedom from a repressive Soviet regime.

Distinguished South African violinist Piet Koornhof – one of Delos’s most proli c recording artists – is partnered here by the renowned American pianist Thomas Hecht in a program largely characterized (as Koornhof puts it) by “stillness and closeness to the heart,” as well as “strong meditative and spiritual overtones.”

Baltic & Beyond

Arvo Pärt: Fratres

My "Ave Generosa" for women's choir

Lyrics: Hildegard von Bingen
Performers: Cant'Ella

Ave Generosa (Cant'Ella Women's Choir)

Nubble Lighthouse

Vision

Norwich

From Cantare Houston's iTunes EP featuring two works of mine for choir, piano and string quartet; Dark Night of the Soul and Luminous Night of the Soul.

Performed by Cantare Houston/Ola Gjeilo, piano/Kevin Riehle, cond.

Tracks available for download on iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/album/ola-gjeilo-dark-night-luminous/id657663673

Sheet music

Luminous Night of the Soul

Ola Gjeilo was born in Norway in 1978 and moved to the United States in 2001 to begin his composition studies at the Juilliard School in New York City. He currently lives in Laguna Beach, California.

 

Ola is an exclusive Decca Classics artist, and his Decca choral albums include “Ola Gjeilo”, “Winter Songs” & “Dreamweaver”, featuring Tenebrae, Voces8 and the Choir of Royal Holloway, as well as the solo piano albums “Night” & “Dawn”. His global streams have now surpassed 230 million.

Ave Generosa (Cant'Ella Women's Choir)

Ola Gjeilo

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